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RE: Toddler And Butt Cream
The green stuff is icing from when I was decorating cakes.
Oh man! What an adventurer your son was haha, I laughed while reading this. Yup we have a common child. So what is he like today? Just to see if I have anything I may have to look forward to :p
Icing! I really should have guessed that. Maybe the color threw me off. :) Our icing, when we actually eat cake (not nearly often enough), is usually chocolate or white colored. Exciting bunch we are, but then my kids are grown and celebrating St. Patrick's day isn't that huge in our house, either.
The youngest still has his 'adventures' now and then, but he's married with a very young daughter, so he's done a lot of growing up and maturing over the last 20 or so years.
From what I can see, in many cases, it's really hard to judge how a child is going to turn out to be as they enter and pass through life's stages. Circumstances change. People and relationships change. They change.
She could go from quite rambunctious and into everything now to moody, brooding and locked up in her room for hours from late middle school on.
I think letting her get the adventure out, outside in a semi-open, semi-controlled situation is a good idea. She's going to be her, and needs to be her, whatever that means in the moment.
I always stepped in hard when I thought what mine were doing might lead to property damage, severe injury or death, and then tried to instill in them that keeping the small rules I gave them would keep them from all the bad stuff.
It didn't seem to be sinking in at the time, but I think they've both turned out pretty good so far. :)